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0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 26, 2013 (limited) 1h 20m | Thriller SUN DON’T SHINE is a subtly cryptic story driven by the powerful performances of its lead actors and its eerily poetic setting. The film follows Crystal and her boyfriend Leo on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida. As the couple travels up the Gulf Coast the disturbing details of their excursion gradually begin to emerge, revealing Crystal’s sinister past and the couple’s troubling future....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 11, 2017 (limited) Other An encore performance of Verdi’s Nabucco will be shown in select cinemas nationwide on Wednesday, January 11. Met Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s early drama of Ancient Babylon, Nabucco, with Plácido Domingo adding a new role to his Met repertory as the title character. Liudmyla Monastyrska sings the tour-de-force role of Abigaille, Nabucco’s willful daughter, with Jamie Barton as Fenena, Russell Thomas as Ismaele, and Dmitri Belosselskiy as the prophet Zaccaria, the role of his 2011 Met debut....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 11, 1957 (limited) November 16, 2007 (limited) November 23, 2007 (limited) Fantasy, Family, Sci-Fi Six-year old petit garçon Pascal Lamorisse and the biggest, shiniest ballon rouge ever–25,000 were used during shooting–share near dialogue-less adventures tagging after each other through the old Belleville section of Paris. Perhaps the most acclaimed short film of all time, “The Red Balloon” won the Palme d’Or for court métrage at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, making it the only short ever given an Oscar for a feature category....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 26% 47% In Theaters: February 21, 2018 (limited) February 23, 2018 (limited) February 26, 2018 (limited) R | Drama, Other, Romance The Room not only stars Tommy Wiseau but he also directed it, wrote it and produced it. It follows the story of Johnny (Wiseau), a bank employee who, seemingly, lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with Lisa, his fiancée....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 1, 2018 (limited) Drama, Thriller It follows Louisa (Julie Webb) as a filmmaker reeling from a recent professional dejection, who meets Luke (Patrick Green), a pianist experiencing his own artistic crisis. Despite a long-term relationship with Ati, (Donny Persons), Louisa is intrigued by Luke. As Louisa falls for him, her skepticism of romantic love begins to unravel as she surrenders to her passions....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 31, 2015 (limited) January 8, 2016 (limited) Action, Adventure In the year 1925, ‘CHUN Man-duk’, who was once a well-known top shooter in all of Corea, no longer hunts but lives in a hut in Mt. Jirisan with his only son, ‘Seok’ whom he had later in his years. ‘Man-duk’s’ teenage son, ‘Seok’, is disgruntled by his father who was once the top gunman in the country but no longer hunts now....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The Trojan Women is a film of the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, which is a highly mannered, ritual-like stage play. It was not easy to transform it into a movie while remaining faithful to the play, but there are many rewards for the patient viewer. The score by Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek) fits the story beautifully, and the film’s re-creation of the ancient Mediterranean is memorable....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 3, 1966 (limited) Drama, Romance Sydney Pollack’s tawdry potboiler, adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, was rife with production problems, culminating in Williams’ failed attempt to have his name removed from the credits. The story is set by a framing device as thirteen-year-old Willie Starr (Mary Badham) sits on an abandoned railroad track with her friend Tom (Jon Provost) and relates the tale of her deceased older sister Alva (Natalie Wood)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Playboy Playmate Jeanne Bell stars as T.N.T.. Jackson (…she’ll put you in traction!) in this popular blaxploitation film from Filipino director Cirio H. Santiago. Jackson leaves Harlem for Hong Kong to find her missing brother, who has run afoul of the Mob. Predictably, she must pose as a prostitute in order to find him, as well as engaging in topless karate. Santiago and his New World Pictures boss, Roger Corman, were so pleased with the film’s success that they essentially remade it twice more, as Firecracker in 1981 and as Angelfist in 1992....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 45m | Family Watch Trailer During one of Bonnie’s post-Christmas playdates, the TOY STORY crew find themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerously delusional. It’s all up to Trixie the triceratops if the gang hopes to ever return to Bonnie’s room. Director: Steve Purcell Studio: Disney/Pixar Producer(s): Galyn Susman Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Kristen Schaal, Kevin McKidd, Emily Hahn, Wallace Shawn...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other A new production of the Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, will be broadcast live to cinemas from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. This entertaining and still topical play brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. As an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern’s smooth ascent to the top seems assured until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary We Remember part 1 is a documentary focusing on the experiences of the Ventura County Vietnam Veterans during the Vietnam War. Topics include entry into the service, landing in Vietnam, Tour of Duty, coping with the fear of death, PTSD, the VA and returning to life back in the USA. These vets all had extensive combat fighting the Viet Cong, North Vietnamese Regulars and the Chinese....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | 1h 52m | Drama, Horror, Thriller Movie Times Veteran horror director Wes Craven was responsible for the hit 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street, which introduced the character of Freddy Krueger. After Craven sold the rights to his character, Krueger became filmdom’s top grossing monster, with five sequels by 1991. In this post-modernist horror film, Craven plays himself, a filmmaker working on a script for a movie that seems to be spinning out of control....

42 votes and 17 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: August 16, 2019 On DVD/Blu-ray: November 26, 2019 On Digital: November 19, 2019 PG-13 | 1h 43m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Bee (Emma Nelson), 15, maintains a perfect report card in order to go on a trip to Antarctica, like her mother, Bernadette (Cate Blanchett) and father, Elgin (Billy Crudup), promised. But when things in Bernadette’s life spin out of control, she disappears without a word....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Drama, Romance Martin Scorsese’s first Hollywood studio production also marked his first (and only) foray into a woman-centered story. Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn), a resigned Southwest housewife, takes advantage of her trucker husband’s sudden death to hit the road with her bratty son Tommy (Alfred Lutter) and pursue her childhood dream of a singing career. She finds a job as a lounge singer, but after a horrific encounter with an abusive new beau (Harvey Keitel), she flees and winds up taking a waitress job at Mel’s Diner, run by gruff cook Mel (Vic Tayback)....

242 votes and 80 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 66% 55% In Theaters: May 19, 2017 On DVD/Blu-ray: August 15, 2017 On Netflix: June 1, 2019 On Digital: August 1, 2017 R | 2h 2m | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi Watch Trailer The crew members of the spaceship Covenant travel to a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy on a colonization mission. All of the members are couples, who are risking everything to form a new colony on the planet....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 54% 1h 44m | Drama, Romance Watch Trailer Devon Terrell and Anya Taylor-Joy star in the biographical drama about Barack Obama’s college years in New York City. In this film, we will see a young version of Barack struggling with race, culture, and identity, in one of the most important years of his life. Director: Vikram Gandhi Studio: Netflix Producer(s): Ben Stillman, Dana O’Keefe, Teddy Schwarzman, Vikram Gandhi...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary follows former Golden Gloves boxing champion Andy Minsker as he trains hopeful pugilists at the Mount Scott boxing club in Portland, Oregon. Those hoping to master the gentle art receive guidance and philosophical insight from the colorful Minsker. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary follows former Golden Gloves boxing champion Andy Minsker as he trains hopeful pugilists at the Mount Scott boxing club in Portland, Oregon....

12 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 96% 91% In Theaters: November 18, 2018 (limited) November 19, 2018 (limited) November 20, 2018 (limited) Animation, Other Fathom Events and GKIDS are partnering to bring Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky to select cinemas nationwide for a special two-day event on August 27 & 28 as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2017. From the legendary director comes the story of a young girl who falls out of the sky and into the arms of young Pazu....

14 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% 65% In Theaters: April 10, 2015 (limited) R | 2h 4m | Drama Watch Trailer At the peak of her career, Maria (Juliette Binoche) is asked to perform in a new staging of the play Maloja Snake, whose film adaptation made her famous 20 years ago. But now she will play the older role. Maria departs with her assistant Val (Kristen Stewart) to rehearse in Sils Maria, a remote area of the Alps, home of the real “Maloja Snake,” a menacing weather phenomenon that sends clouds winding through the valley....